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26 January 2009
VATICAN - “St. Paul's conversion offers us a model that shows us the way to full unity.” Benedict XVI concludes the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity at the Basilica of St. Paul
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - “St. Paul's conversion offers us a model that shows us the way to full unity. Unity in fact requires a conversion: from division to communion, from broken unity to healed and full unity. ...
26 January 2009
ASIA/MYANMAR - Erection of the Diocese of Hpa-An, first Bishop appointed
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on January 24, 2009, erected the Diocese of Hpa-An (Myanmar), with territory taken from the Archdiocese of Yangon, making it a suffragan of the same Metropol ...
26 January 2009
EUROPE/POLAND - “The conversion and evangelizing mission of Saint Paul”: Archdiocese of Czestochowa's pilgrimage for the Year of St. Paul
Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) - “The conversion and evangelizing mission of Saint Paul” was the main theme for the pilgrimage organized by the Archdiocese of Czestochowa, to the Cathedral of the Holy Family of Nazareth ...
26 January 2009
ASIA/HONG KONG - In the midst of the global financial crisis, the Catholic community is committed to living the Chinese New Year with solidarity and a return to essential values
Hong Kong (Agenzia Fides) – The Christian leaders of Hong Kong asked all citizens, on the eve of Chinese New Year, to consider solidarity, sharing, the sense of appreciation and the importance of being united, as the m ...
26 January 2009
EUROPE/SPAIN - Bishops make a declaration on the atheist-secularist attack on God: “Using public areas to insult God in the presence of believers is an abuse and an infringement on the right to religious freedom.”
Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - “A publicity statement that infringes on religious freedom, on public buses,” is the title of the statement from the Spanish Bishops' Conference in which they express their disapproval of the ...
26 January 2009
AMERICA/GUATEMALA - The main cause of the problems in the country is a “placing aside of moral criterias in the area of decision-making and in daily life,” the Bishops say at the close of their Plenary Assembly, calling for solidarity in response to the global economic recession
Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishops of Guatemala have published a document at the close of their Plenary Assembly, celebrated on January 19-23. In the statement, the Prelates recall that the most serious probl ...
26 January 2009
AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Archdiocese of San Jose launches Continental Mission: “our objective is to enter into a permanent missionary state”
San Jose (Agenzia Fides) – Priests, seminarians, and faithful gathered together this past Sunday, January 25, in the Cathedral of San Jose (Costa Rica), to celebrate the Conversion of St. Paul and inaugurate the Great ...
26 January 2009
ASIA/LAOS - A new Laotian priest: signs of hope for the Church
Savannakhet (Agenzia Fides) – Each new priest implies an immense gift to the Catholics of Laos, This is what Apostolic Delegate to Laos, Archbishop Salvatore Pennacchio, said in addressing the faithful at the priestly ...
26 January 2009
AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - “The time of talking is over: Mugabe should step down”: Southern African Bishops take a firm stance, as South Africa hosts yet another meeting on the Zimbabwe crisis
Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - “The appalling tragedy in Zimbabwe means that the time of talking is over. Six months of talks have resulted only in a stalemate. It is clear that the present mediation and negotiations h ...
26 January 2009
AFRICA/ZAMBIA - “You should strive to venture into activities that will help to awaken, enliven and support the missionary efforts of the Church,” Apostolic Nuncio tells the PMS National Assembly in Zambia
Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - “The meeting was an opportunity to renew our vision of the missionary church. It helped us to renew our vision to actions and helped us to find new stimulus and boldness for missionary animati ...
26 January 2009
OCEANIA/FIJI ISLANDS - “The new technologies are helping to break the isolation and foster communion”: Agenzia Fides interviews Fr. Roger McCarrick, Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Bishops' Conference (CEPAC)
Suva (Agenzia Fides) – Communion, sharing, cooperation, in spite of the isolation, thanks to the new forms of media and technology...this is the depiction of the Church in the Pacific Islands made by Fr. Roger McCarric ...
23 January 2009
EUROPE/SPAIN - Preparations for World Youth Day 2011 in Madrid begin with a youth encounter February 7 in the Diocese of Granada
Granada (Agenzia Fides) – In view of preparations for World Youth Day, which Pope Benedict XVI will preside in Madrid in 2011, the Youth Delegation of the Diocese of Granada has organized a series of encounters for the ...
23 January 2009
AMERICA/PERU - On Sunday, January 25, a new Church to be inaugurated in Lima, on the occasion of Cardinal Cipriani's 10th anniversary as Archbishop of Lima
Lima (Agenzia Fides) – The Archdiocese of Lima will inaugurate a new Church this Sunday, January 25, in honor of Cardinal Cipriani's 10th anniversary as Archbishop of Lima.
After 18 years of waiting, the dream of the ...
23 January 2009
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Bishops once again call on authorities to use just treatment and not to involve the Church nor her Hierarchy in pre-election political propaganda
La Paz (Agenzia Fides) – The Bolivian Bishops' Conference (CEB) has expressed “its surprise and concern for the constant attacks and disqualifications that the highest authority in the country has made against the pe ...
23 January 2009
AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Bishops alert on the situation of violence and the rise of delinquency in the country
Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) – The Auxiliary Bishops of Santo Domingo and Santiago, in their homilies in honor of Our Lady of Altagracia (the country's patroness), their concern for the situation of violence and the r ...
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